The Friday Link for 5/21/21

Hi all! I hope you are well.  I'm still trying to recover from a health issue.  I have a bad feeling this will take awhile.

Let's start the Friday Link with a story which I'm shocked is not a FAR larger story.  UFO's are real!  I'm not talking about a wild rant from the weird haired dude from the History Channel who thinks everything that ever happened was 'Aliens!'  I'm talking credible witnesses and copious evidence.

60 Minutes did a great story on this.  To be fair, this might not be aliens, but rather technology from another country which far exceeds ours (which is terrifying on a different level) but the way these pilots talk about it, they're clearly saying what we are saying; Aliens! 

Next up I dive into two cooking videos, specifically focused on cooking with the Dutch oven.

Dutch ovens are a long used cooking staple of the American frontier.  My first exposure to the diversity and mastery of using them was watching the recent chuckwagon cookout competitions which demanded the chuckwagon cooks use Dutch ovens to cook in a wide variety of ranges. 

Then a usually favorite of mine on the Friday Link, Townsends, did a series on Dutch Oven Cooking.  I highly recommend watching the entire series from them, but this 1796 Beef Steak Pie recipe they did looks amazing! 

No only are history buffs embracing the Dutch oven.  A lot of modern country cooks are posting videos of using them too.  The main difference is as opposed to a campfire setting, these modern cooks use charcoal briquets, and seem to have a fairly good science behind it.

The Backwoods Gourmet has a charcoal Dutch oven recipe for biscuits and gravy and it looks absolutely amazing.  Mind you the constant sound of gun fire going off in this video (because he is recording this at a hunting club) is a little odd, but it does show how portable cooking in a Dutch oven can be.  And the food looks great. 

Have a great weekend everyone.

Get vaccinated!

Stay healthy and stay safe.

The Friday Link for 5/14/21

We start off the Friday Link this week with a fond memory.  

On the radio show today I recalled the old Poodle Club in south Minneapolis.  It was where we would go hang out when I went to Brown Radio School, which at that time was down on Lake Street.  Although much more of an adult establishment, it got me recollecting on other lost places from my past.

I remember (vaguely) going to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor as a kid to celebrate my birthday.  I'm pretty sure it was over by Southdale, but I couldn't find any franchise information about the location over there.  It was a throwback ice cream parlor which featured the Mount Everest of ice cream treats for a kid, The Zoo.  It had a bunch of cool plastic animals and pretty much every ice cream and topping they had. 

When I saw this piece on You Tube from Life in America, I distinctly remember being in the restaurant at some point.  I also remember the piano playing ragtime music.  Fond memories of the history we've lost.

Also this week, I've enjoyed watching GenZ and the Millennials go to war. The two distinct cultural groups decided to tear into each other, and myself being in Generation X, it's delicious. Millennials have gotten a shot or two in, but the hard truth is they will always be older than GenZ, and GenZ will really enjoy telling them that.

This is a bash on Millennials, but I thought it was good fun.  And sadly (from my personal experience), not too far from he truth.

Finally a great bit from Late Night with Seth Meyers.  A look into the Chauvin Trial Jury deliberations.  I would have definitely been in the 'Super Guilty' camp.

Get vaccinated, stay healthy and stay safe.

Have a great weekend.

The Friday Link for 5/7/21

I've had a bad week.

It started with my hip surgery getting cancelled at the last second, to having to figure out a diagnosis for the serious health problem which was VERY serious.  

Today I'm exhausted.  Nothing wakes you up from your complacent slumber faster than a serious health problem.

That being said, I'm glad it's Friday and I have a lot to look forward to this weekend. 

Tonight my videos come in two varieties.  Informercials and Korean Street Food!

I love informercials! The way they can convince you to buy a crap product you do not need is amazing. I had the chance to watch a lot of them while I was in the hospital this week. Late night TV is plastered with them.

But some of the products actually work and are REALLY good products.  Watch Mojo has a list of the 10 best Informercial products ever made, and I'll admit, I have two of them.  Also look for my friend Nancy Nelson show up hosting in the #1 Informercial!  I love her so! 

And of course if I give you the best products from informercials, I need to give you Watch Mojo's list of the ten worst products from informercials too!  The bed gun rack is disturbing...

The other thing that happened during my hospital stay was I was put on a fairly restrictive diet while I was there (while they tried to figure out what was going on). As I ate a lot of seasoning free veggies, I started to watch videos of Korean street food, which looks amazing! 

Here are three of the videos I found, and they all look so good. 

Have a good weekend everyone.  PLEASE get vaccinated! 

Stay healthy.  Stay safe.